One of America’s greatest and most underrated contemporary bands, Saturday Looks Good to Me, have announced a new album.

With songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Fred Thomas at the helm the group have been quietly releasing classics since 2000; 2003’s All Your Summer Songs, 2004’s Every Night and 2007’s limited Green Mansions particular favourites in certain quarters of the FACT office. Their sound takes in classic surf-pop, Motown, Northern Soul and more, and even when not at their best, they’re always a force to be reckoned with.

The group has been fairly inactive since 2008 (Fred Thomas however, has not, releasing an incredible album with Ryan Howard on Type under the name City Center), but an email from their label Polyvinyl this afternoon claims that the group are now back – with a new vocalist to boot, Carol Gray – and working on a new album for the label, scheduled for release this Autumn. More information on that as it comes.

In other SLGTM news, the label will be re-issuing the classic All Your Summer Songs on 180-gram white vinyl, limited to 1000 copies, for Record Store Day.

It’s at times like these we wish we had access to our old old site – FACT’s Tom Lea penned an in-depth feature on Fred Thomas for us back in mid-2009.